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著者: Charlotte Warren-Gash, Krishnan Bhaskaran, Andrew Hayward, Gabriel M Leung, Su-Vui Lo, Chit-Ming Wong, Joanna Ellis, Richard Pebody, Liam Smeeth, Benjamin J Cowling
雑誌名: J Infect Dis. 2011 Jun 15;203(12):1710-8. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jir171.
Abstract/Text
BACKGROUND: Previous studies identifying associations between influenza and acute cardiac events may have been confounded by climatic factors. Differing seasonal patterns of influenza activity in Hong Kong and England and Wales provide a natural experiment to examine associations with myocardial infarction (MI) independent of cold weather effects.
METHODS: Weekly clinical and laboratory influenza surveillance data, environmental temperature and humidity data, and counts of MI-associated hospitalizations and deaths were obtained for England and Wales and for Hong Kong for the period 1998-2008. We used Poisson regression models that included environmental and seasonal variables to investigate the relationship between influenza and MI.
RESULTS: There were ≥1.2 million MI-associated hospitalizations and 410,204 MI-associated deaths in England and Wales, with a marked peak in the winter season. In Hong Kong, the incidence of MI, on the basis of 65,108 hospitalizations and 18,780 deaths, had a large winter and smaller summer peak, mirroring patterns of influenza activity. There was strong evidence for a link between influenza and MI both in England and Wales, where 3.1%-3.4% of MI-associated deaths (P < .001) and 0.7%-1.2% of MI-associated hospitalizations (P < .001) were attributable to influenza, and in Hong Kong, where the corresponding figures were 3.9%-5.6% (P = .018) and 3.0%-3.3% (P = .002).
CONCLUSIONS: Influenza was associated with an increase in MI-associated deaths and hospitalizations in 2 contrasting settings.
PMID 21606529 J Infect Dis. 2011 Jun 15;203(12):1710-8. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jir171.
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